This decoration hung in Dahlia Plummer's home in Cavaliers St Andrews, Jamaica.

Dahlia lived with her grandparents and her sister in West Croydon until her grandfather died in 1975. His dying wish was that his wife should take the grandchildren to live on the family farm in Jamaica.

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Dahlia Plummer

Dahlia moved from West Croydon to Jamaica when she was a child:

"I'd grown up in Croydon and seen quite a few black people, but 99% of the people were white. And then it was the opposite, It was me and my sister wewere these two little white girls among this vast majority of black people, you know. "

"When we were in High School, I would go up on the stage and I could pick out my sister easy. She was the only white kid standing in this whole auditorium of black kids. All these people speaking in this really funny fast language, and me trying to repeat it with an English accent, and they just cracked up laughing."

Moving to Jamaica and back

Around 3500 people moved from the United Kingdom (UK)to the Caribbean Commonwealth in 1976. Dahlia Plummer's move from Croydon to Jamaica was one of those journeys.

After twelve years Dahlia moved back to London. Stories of migration into the UK tend to get much more publicity.

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